Vintage Halloween Glassware

Image 1: Vintage Halloween Pumpkin and Ghost Tumbler

Haunting estate sales, rummage sales and resale shops allows me to find occasional fun items that become family legends.  I once found six of the pumpkin and ghost tumblers above.  They became family favorites, used  constantly year round.  Some of the glasses broke, and since I can't replace them, I eventually put them out of sight and only bring the remaining two out around Halloween.  I gave one of the glasses to my daughter when she got an apartment, to remind her of home and make her smile.  (She insists Halloween is her favorite holiday).

Image 2: Vintage Batty drinking glass

The batty glasses above became a favorite as well.  I only found two of them.  The glass is stronger, but the black bats don't hold up well in the dishwasher, and are now more of "charcoal" instead of black. I now think of the glasses as "ghost bats" - SPOOKY!   

Dishwashers can "etch" glassware and wear off images, and some glasses wear much more significantly.  I should have hand washed these, but the dishwasher damage has been done, and the kids still like them, so I will bring them out each year, but they will still go in the dishwasher.

Image 3: Dishwasher Damage to vintage glassware - Ghost Bats

Using vintage glassware regularly does take a toll on the glassware - Glasses break, and that's OK.  Vintage glassware frequently arrives at a resale shop rarely used or unused, and "using up" a glass is a green option I like.  It also teaches the kids to handle glass with more care - (maybe?).

When the kids were young, I was so happy to have matching glassware.  I gleefully ditched the children's plastic as soon as they were old enough, good-bye plastic sippy cups!  Then came the next battle.  Every time someone wanted a drink, a new glass would be out, and on a hot day you could fill the top of the dishwasher with dozens of glasses used that day.  I started trying to get the kids to use the same glass all day, which led to needing unique glasses so they could tell the glassware apart.  Does this happen in other families???  So much for matching glassware!

This post is a tribute to these favorite glasses, in case they don't survive the Halloween season.

Happy Halloween!

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"I love autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it." — Unknown

 

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